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...Brian Oldfield calls her "all arm. If she gets some speed, she'll hit 240 ft." No devotee of training-she chain-smokes Tareyton 100s and quaffs beer with true zeal-Schmidt will check in at Montreal at 6 ft. 1 in. and 178 Ibs., some 10 Ibs. heavier than she would like -the excess due more to weightlifting than beverages. Schmidt also will take to Montreal not only her immense desire to win, but her élan, something that her archfoe lacks...
...role of John Proctor, the farmer who embodies Miller's moral viewpoint and becomes the tragic hero of the play. The part is here entrusted to Don Murray, who does make an earnest attempt. He starts off all right; but as soon as the role begins to make heavier demands, his shortcomings are evident. In his second-act colloquy with the Reverend Hale, Proctor has an exceedingly important remark: "Is the accuser always holy now?" Murray hurries over this so that the idea is all but lost...
...Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise to critics of the country's preoccupation with money. They point out that the legal code inflicts heavier penalties for failure to pay a hotel bill than for statutory rape...
American Jews exert an influence on American opinion that is far heavier than their numbers would indicate. They are the strongest single influence on the big media...They control much of the financial community, and through it, large segments of the academic community...Oh, they scream anti-Semitism whenever anyone mentions their power, but it's true...
Giolitti said that economic recovery will require wage restraint, cuts in government spending, and heavier taxation. Italy also needs reforms in the social services and in the economic structures, he said...